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Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons Poster, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer

M. Elizabeth Downing

This poster was presented at DC-HUG 2017 in Rolla, MO. Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one digital collections platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. This collection suffered from issues relating to access and user experience. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the collection though those efforts did not achieve the desired result. …

Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance

M. Elizabeth Downing

Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one digital collections platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. This collection suffered from issues relating to access and user experience. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the collection though those efforts did not achieve the desired result. In the spring of 2017 it was determined that the …

Exploring Every Inch Of Harrisonburg: The Robert J. Sullivan Jr. Papers, Grace Barth, Kate Morris

Grace Barth

The Hitchhiker’S Guide To Collection Development In Academic Libraries, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James

Rose Fortier

The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to …

Between Subject And Tech Expertise: Collaborating With Faculty For Digital Humanities Projects [Presentation], Rose Fortier, Heather G. James, Wendy Fall

Rose Fortier

Libraries are well-positioned for partnership with digital humanities efforts in several ways. The management of digital items and the description of information resources for future researchers make libraries natural partners in digital humanities projects. Often Humanities scholars will reach out to the library for support or even guidance in these projects. At Marquette University, the Gothic Archive exemplifies the development of this collaboration. Though the Archive started as a humble collection of digitized and transcribed gothic chapbooks, it is being developed into an interwoven collection of digitized materials and contextual objects and promises to become a full-fledged digital humanities tool. …

From Multiple Perspectives: Commemorating The Los Angeles Aqueduct At Loyola Marymount University, Shilpa Rele, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Best Practices For Descriptive Metadata For Lmu Digital Collections, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian, Shilpa Rele

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Staff Sourcing For Digitization, Rose Fortier

Rose Fortier

A session detailing the outsourcing of metadata creation for digitization to reference staff members at the Milwaukee Public Library in order to expedite the creation of digital collections.

Preface, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

No abstract provided.

Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer

Rose Fortier

An exploration of collaboration between institutions for the creation of digital collections using CONTENTdm. Wisconsin Heritage Online and the Milwaukee Public Library reveal how they were able to enter into a partnership to host digital collections from smaller institutions who would not be able to afford to purchase or subscribe CONTENTdm on their own.

The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier

Rose Fortier

Part of a series of presentations given at a panel discussion at the 2011 WAPL conference. The panel was called "Adventures in Digitization: Digital Collections" and included digitization efforts from six different public libraries of varying sizes. Panel members who had worked with public libraries of various sizes discussed their experiences in creating digital collections, including the successful implementation of digitization procedures and how they were able to overcome obstacles. This presentation covers experiences and collections from the Milwaukee Public Library

No Muss, No Fuss: Ead Finding Aids Without Xml, Rose Fortier

Rose Fortier

Digital finding aids increase use and visibility of special collections materials, but many programs or services require knowledge of coding languages to create and maintain them. Using CONTENTdm and a word processing program, finding aids using EAD principles and formatting can be easily created without the needing knowledge of coding or programming languages.

Pitfalls And Pratfalls: The Waa Collection At The Milwaukee Public Library, Rose Fortier

Rose Fortier

An overview of the Milwaukee Public Library's attempt to digitize building plans and architectural drawings in the Wisconsin Architectural Archives. Details the technical details of digitizing an unusual format. Also describes the legal and policy pitfalls that prevented the final collection from being realized beyond the planning stages.

Wwi Postcard Collection: A Community-Based Model For Digital Libraries, Marc D. Bayer

Marc D Bayer

The paradigm shift of academic libraries from information purveyors to places of learning and communicating must occur virtually as well as physically. By creating informal virtual communities around digital collections , librarians can participate in the academic discussion and make more formal collections better known.